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Speaking pictures : neuropsychoanalysis and authorship in film and literature /

Alistair Fox presents a theory of literary and cinematic representation through the lens of neurological and cognitive science in order to understand the origins of storytelling and our desire for fictional worlds. Fox contends that fiction is deeply shaped by emotions and the human capacity for met...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Fox, Alistair
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Bloomington : Indiana University Press, 2016.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction
  • Changing Configurations in Theories of Fictive Representation
  • Why Does Fictive Representation Exist?
  • The Wellsprings of Fictive Creativity
  • The Materials of Fictive Invention
  • The Informing Role of Fantasy
  • The Shaping of Fictive Scenarios by the Author: Motivations, Strategies, and Outcomes
  • The Exploitation of Generic Templates and Intertexts as Vehicles for Affect Regulation
  • Theories of Reception in the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries
  • A Neuropsychoanalytic Theory of Reception
  • Intersubjective Attunement, Filiation, and the Re-creative Process: Jules and Jim- from Henri-Pierre Roche to Francois Truffaut
  • The Conversion of Autobiographical Emotion into Symbolic Figuration: William Shakespeare's Hamlet
  • Tracking a Personal Myth through an Oeuvre: The Films of Francois Ozon
  • Conclusion.